Parliamentary sketch: raw croak-anomics by Curiously Blameless George

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I wish to file a missing rabbit alert. Somewhere, in Britain, there is a rabbit who was supposed to be in the Commons; a fluffy, happy hop-along whose purpose in life was to be pulled out of the hat by the Chancellor. It says something about how bad it was this autumn that there was no rabbit — and no hat.

Instead we had a frog. Ribbit. Ribbit. They say that you should never work with children or animals, but surely amphibians are the worst. There was George, just beginning to paint his picture of Hell, his Euro-gedden, his Apocalypse Non,